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Mouse wheel scrolling

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wildfire142

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I've been adding stuff for a star Wars based realm and after putting lots of details and snippets I find myself try to use my mouse wheel to scroll down and being slightly frustrated by having to find the scroll bar which often breaks my train of thought.

So asking if mouse wheel scrolling can be added please.
 
wildfire142 said:
Okay feeling a little foolish scrolling works as long as you aren't clicked into and working on a snippet etc
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I don't think that's completely true. There are plenty of times when I'm done with a snippet and it's saved or I'm not in it when scrolling doesn't work. And in any case I'd also like it to work even when I am in a snippet. +1 from me. :)
 
Same. I've never had the scroll wheel function as expected, whether with my mouse or the emulator region on my laptop touchpad. Additionally, my mouse has navigation buttons that are used to move back and forth in my browser and Windows Explorer history. It would be nice if they would have the same effect in Realm Works tabs.
 
Been working away and figured out as long as you haven't clicked on any part of the snippet or top in either view or edit mode then you can scroll, but would like to be able to scroll regardless of where our clicked on the topic/articles etc.
 
I catch myself using my mouse forward/back buttons all the time. I certainly want it myself, but I'll have to see if there's any "gotchas" involved.

Mousewheel support is pretty shady right now. I know there's some panels that just don't scroll no matter what (and should). I consider these bugs at this point. I don't know that I'll be able to find them all myself, so if you find a case where you think the scroll wheel should work and it doesn't, please report it as a bug. :)
 
I know you guys are busy. Can you take a moment for this. Haven't heard back since April 2013. Because there is so much editing and navigation from snip to snip - screen to screen etc..Wheel scroll is essential. Let us know what the status is. Thanks and RW rocks!! Thanks for all your hard work!
 
Definitely a +1 on this... with the amount of data entry involved complete functionality of mouse scrolling is almost a necessity.
 
I'd have to agree. My muscle memory is so strong that I'm always finding myself scrolling with the wheel and then of course getting frustrated when nothing happens. It's much more efficient.
 
We're definitely working on this. Trust me, the dev team are all power user types too, so it is frustrating to us too!

I believe we're rolling out the fix for this in two phases:

Phase 1 is to fix locations which don't allow mouse wheel scroll even if you focus (e.g. click in) a control. These fixes should be part of 1.0.

Phase 2 will require a little more engineering work because the control library we're using doesn't implement mouse wheel scroll consistently across all the controls we use. We'd like to make it so that you don't have to first click a control to focus it to get it to start scrolling with the wheel. This will be in a post 1.0 patch at some point in the future.

Hope this helps!
 
Definitely appreciate this information...

Especially the manner in which it was presented.

'This' is what we are working on now, 'this' is what we expect a little bit further down the road... I realize that part of the closeness with which information has been held by the development team is natural to the process of software development and that it is partly in response to overexpectations from the client (us) but it was still nice to get a bit more of the larger picture.

Thanks
 
Also, we did make some changes in the mouse wheel scrolling in the latest build, 145. It may not be perfect yet, but it should be an improvement over previous builds.
 
Thanks for the update. Good news indeed. I hadn't notice anything new in .145 but that's only because I haven't been able to open it due to the dread "too many realm starting point error"
 
OK, now you've done it! The release will now be delayed until 'late 2014' due to the requirement to add perfect mouse wheel support.

All kidding aside, just get it done without mouse wheel support, please.
 
I noticed this last night when I tried scrolling down to the bottom of a smart image map.

I also caught myself trying to use the forward / back mouse buttons to navigate between topics.
 
Thanks for adding this in in whatever shape goes in first and then refining it when you can get that library to play nice.

This has been a major source of frustration for me.

As was pointed out, Joe's presentation of this was top-notch. Wholly appreciated and I hope I never take it for granted.
 
I reactivated my forum account just to pop in and +1 the frustration on this topic, hoping mouse wheel scrolling can be improved in Realm Works.
 
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